BibleThump

BibleThump shows Isaac, the crying child from Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl's 2011 game The Binding of Isaac. Isaac fights by firing tears, so the streams running from his large black eyes are both part of the character's appearance and the game's basic attack.

On January 13, 2013, the single-purpose site ICryEveryTime turned BibleThump into a visual gag of its own, filling the screen with falling Isaac faces over a sad violin loop. Ten days later, a GameFAQs thread was already asking what `Kappa` and `BibleThump` meant. The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Requiem later brought the Twitch reference back into the franchise with an official `Bible Thump!` card in its `Isaac Memes` set.

Twitch removed BibleThump on September 30, 2024 after its rights to the emote expired, describing its official run as the `BibleThump Era (2013-2024)`. McMillen publicly said he was willing to find a way to keep or modify the emote, but the original Twitch global was still retired.

When this emote was active, viewers typed BibleThump in Twitch chat to use it. Viewers used Isaac's streaming tears for sad losses, failed runs and sentimental moments, often repeating BibleThump into walls of crying faces in the same style that ICryEveryTime had turned into a standalone joke in 2013.